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with Peloton. This message was paid for by Peloton. The Guardian. Hi, my name is Amalia

Illgner and I'm the author of the piece you're about to listen to. I've been a journalist since 2016

and I wrote this just as I was getting started in the industry. I wrote this at a time

where I was frankly shocked at how difficult it was to build a sustainable career in journalism.

I've completed a master's in journalism in London and quickly saw how difficult the path I was

for some of my fellow students and how relatively easy it was for others. Of course you needed the

skills, drive and determination, but all things being equal, if you didn't have the money in the

form of rich parents or in my case a financially supportive partner, you were all but locked out of

your first job. The reason being unpaid or nightmarishly underpaid internships. All around me,

my fellow students were doing weeks of unpaid work, getting experience, building networks,

getting contacts, what others had to grind away while retail jobs because well the rent depended

on it. A week of unpaid work was all but impossible in London. I took a two month internship,

paid it around three pounds an hour, less than half minimum wage at Monaco magazine,

which I thought was just what you had to do to get a foot in the door. But once I was in,

I started to feel really uneasy. All but one of the other interns were supported by their parents.

The work we were doing was real work by any normal standard and the company boasted of its profits

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